A Benjamin Franklin Reader
“One of them, in January 1770, was a fable about a young lion cub and a large English dog traveling together on a ship. It was “humbly inscribed” to Lord Hillsborough, the colonial secretary who had become Franklin’s most ardent opponent.THE PUBLIC ADVERTISER, JANUARY 2, 1770A lion’s whelp was put on board a Guinea ship bound to America as a present to a friend in that country: it was tame and harmless as a kitten, and therefore not confined, but suffered to walk about the ship at pleasure. A st...ately, full-grown English mastiff, belonging to the captain, despising the weakness of the young lion, frequently took its food by force, and often turned it out of its lodging box, when he had a mind to repose therein himself.MoreLess
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